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Detention in non-international armed conflict - Meeting of all States, 27-29 April 2015

… Meeting of All States 27-29 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland Background document April … been codified for detention in NIAC. The four Geneva Conventions – universally ratified but for the …

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Chad/Sudan: ICRC facilitates release of 30 children previously detained in relation to conflict; ICRC president visits eastern Chad

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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Mali: Arabic IHL library given to Université privée du Sahel

… law. The French publications also provide the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional …

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1945-1965: two decades of challenges

… on a process of revising and expanding the Geneva Conventions, aiming to avoid a repeat of the …

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Gaza’s Youth: Suspended Lives, Fading Opportunities

… its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. it is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and works in more than …

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14th UN Crime Congress: ICRC calls for greater focus on health, dignity of detainees

… management. The ICRC colleagues in both Geneva and Tokyo participated in several … are treated humanely as mandated by the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC visited 1,274 …

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ACTIVITY REPORT - IRAQ 2023

… to its mandate and mission, derived from the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional … ICRC’s oldest institutions enshrined in the Geneva Conventions, the ICRC seeks to protect …

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تقرير النشاطات - باللغة العربية

We are the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

… was given to us by states through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949, their Additional …

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An ICRC team travels by pirogue to Balombe to distribute farming equipment and fishing supplies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Syria: ICRC calls for sustained and collective efforts to address the issue of the missing

… humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around …

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Lana Noamaan holding a smartphone showing a picture of her father

China: University of San Agustin garnered the championship in the 22nd IHL Moot Court for Asia-Pacific Region

… the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Geneva Conventions which are the bedrock of …

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Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.